Detachable target butt plate



Aug. 26, 1924. 1,505,956

A. H. HOFER 'DETACHABLE TARGET BUTT PLATE Filed Sent. 21 1923 INVENTORAlfredHHo/r' Patented Aug. 26, 1924.

METRE S T ALFRED H. HOIFER, O'F DAYTON, OHIO.

BETACHABLE TARGET BUTT PLATE.

Application filed September 21, 1923.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALFRED H. Horne, acitizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county ofMontgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Detachable Target Butt Plates, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to a detachable target butt plate for riflesdesigned to be quickly attachable and detachable from the ordinary buttplate on the stock of regulation Springfield rifles, particularly.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a device of thiskind which, for its connection, requires a minimum amount of alterationof the ordinary rifies butt plate, and which, when in position,constitutes a rigid continuous section of the gun stock.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention,

Fig. 1 is a side view of the butt end of the rifle, showing the targetbutt plate in position thereon;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is an isolated enlarged sideview of a hook screw forming a part of the detachable connection for theplate.

In the drawings, the same numerals are applied to the same parts.

The gun stock 10 is fitted in practice with a metal butt plate 11,fastened suitably by screws 12 and 13, one entering the rear end of thestock and the other the top side thereof. This plate in order to permitthe connection of the target butt plate 14 thereon, has an opening 15provided therein near its lower edge forming a socket to receive a hookscrew 16 projecting from the plate 14 with the end of the hook directeddownwardly. The hook and socket connection is intended to be quicklydetachable, and to hold the plate rigid on the end of the gun stockflush at all points with the edges of the plate 11 when the screw 17 istightened. The screw 17 is entered through an opening in a shoulderprong 18 projecting rearwardly from the plate 14, substantiallyhorizontally. A similar lower prong 19 is similarly rearwardly directedand is provided on the plate 14 to cooperate with the prong 18 inholding the stock steady upon the shoulder when firing the rifle. Thescrew 17 is re ceived in a nut 20 brazed, welded, or otherwise suitablysecured on the inner side of Serial No. 664,129.

the plate '11 or simply laid in a socket in the gun stock and held inplace by the plate in its assembled position. The screw 17 is intendedto be manually operable by a knurled knob 21 in which the outer end ofthe screw is suitably threaded and riveted, as shown. The knob 21 whenthe plate 14 is in assembled position on the gun stock is turned upagainst the flat end 22 of the prong 18 flush therewith to presentsubstantially the same appearance as the knob 23 on the outer end of theprong 19.

The target butt plate is manifestly of a size to be carried about in thepocket to be quickly attachable and detachable by hand as no tools arerequired in either operation, the screw tightened by hand having beenfound to be sufiicient to secure the target butt plate quite rigidly tothe butt plate on the rifle, making it as solid as if attached directlyto the stock. In fact, the plate can be drawn up so tightly as tocompensate for any wear on the butt plate. The target butt plate equipsthe rifle for all styles of shooting and saves the user the expense ofeither extra rifles or extra stocks.

I claim:

1. The combination with an ordinary butt plate permanently affixed tothe stock of a firearm, of a quickly detachable butt plate having twoshoulder-engaging prongs at the upper and lower ends of the plate, meanson the plate adjacent the one prong to make a quick detachableconnection with the butt plate on the firearm, and a screw passingthrough the other prong for rigidly connecting the plate with the buttplate on the firearm.

2. The combination with a butt of a fire-- arm, of a quickly detachablebutt piece having a shoulder prong extending rearwardly therefrom, ascrew extending through said prong for securing said butt piece, and afinger knob rigid with the outer'end of said screw for turning the sameforming the end of said prong with said butt piece in place.

3. The combination with the flat butt plate permanently aflixed on thestock of a rifle, of a one-piece pocket-type quickly detachable targetbutt plate having two spaced prongs to fit about the shoulder, aprojection on the plate at one prong to make quickly detachableconnection by engagement in an opening made in said butt plate, and ascrew at the other prong entered through said plate to engage in a screwtarget butt plate and the ordinary butt plate upon movement of the oneplate relative to the other, a screw entered through 1 the first namedof said prongs to make a rigid connection for said target plate, and arounded knob similar to the knob end of the second-named prong rigidwith said screw for turning the same home forming 20 the knob end of thefirst-named prong with said target butt plate in place.

In testimony whereof I affia; my signature.

ALFRED H. I-IOFER.

